Catechesis in the Church’s dialogue with the world

Polak, Mieczysław (author)

The Church is fulfilling her salvific mission in the world entrusted to her by Christ. She is sent to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ, man’s only Saviour. Through her presence in the world, the Church enters into dialogue with it. The Second Vatican Council stressed the need for the Church’s dialogical presence in the world. The main issue of this article is the search for an answer to whether catechesis itself has a dialogical structure and whether it is a place of dialogue between the Church and the world. The study first shows the dialogue of salvation as a relationship between God and man. Then it presents the Church’s relationship with the world, which is a relationship of dialogue. Since catechesis is at the service of God’s dialogue of salvation and is an ecclesial ministry, it is therefore also dialogical and can, in a sense, be a place for the Church’s dialogue with the world. There is, however, a particular specificity of this dialogue, which is based on the spirituality of dialogue. The vision of catechesis is contained in the new Vatican Directory for Catechesis, which describes it as a ,laboratory for dialogue‘.

• Language: English
• Keywords: Church, world, catechesis, dialogue, a spirituality of dialogue
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: TEOF - Theological Faculty
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2021
• Year: 2021
• Number of pages: Str. 711-719
• Numbering: Letn. 81, [št.] 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-163984
• UDC: 272-472
• ISSN on article: 0006-5722
• DOI: 10.34291/BV2021/03/Polak
• COBISS.SI-ID: 100067075
• Publication date in RUL: 15.10.2024

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Bogoslovni vestnik
• Shortened title: Bogosl. vestn.
• Publisher: Bogoslovna akademija, Bogoslovna akademija, Teološka fakulteta v Ljubljani, Teološka fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani, Založba Univerze v Ljubljani
• ISSN: 0006-5722
• COBISS.SI-ID: 8745472

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Kateheza pri dialogu Cerkve s svetom

Abstract

Cerkev v svetu uresničuje svoje odrešenjsko poslanstvo, ki ji ga je zaupal Kristus. Poslana je oznanjevati evangelij Jezusa Kristusa, edinega človekovega odrešenika. Prek svoje navzočnosti v svetu Cerkev z njim stopa v dialog. Drugi vatikanski koncil je poudaril potrebo dialoške navzočnosti Cerkve v svetu. Glavna tema našega članka je iskanje odgovora, ali ima kateheza sama po sebi dialoško strukturo in ali je prostor dialoga med Cerkvijo in svetom. Raziskava najprej pokaže na dialog odrešenja kot odnos med Bogom in človekom. Nato predstavi odnos Cerkve do sveta, ki je odnos dialoga. Ker je kateheza v službi božjega odrešenjskega dialoga in ker je del cerkvenega poslanstva, je obenem dialoška in je lahko nekako prostor dialoga Cerkve s svetom. Ta dialog je resda specifičen, saj temelji na duhovnosti dialoga. Pogled na katehezo je vsebovan v novem vatikanskem Katehetskem direktoriju, ki jo opredeljuje kot ‚laboratorij dialoga‘.

• Keywords: Cerkev, svet, kateheza, dialog, duhovnost dialoga